Imagine a world with 8 billion human minds and a trillion non-human, human-level AI minds. With this ratio, new complex social networks will arise from the interactions between all these minds. The most personal interactions will likely remain between humans, but human-agent relationships will also become rich, changing language and our understanding of mind. However, most socially important interactions will be agent-to-agent. This AI society is nested within the human society, and both evolve quickly, influencing one another.

No two cultures define “artificial” the same way. For some the word implies artifice and deception, and for others merely the man-made. What then does it mean to speak of "artificial life,” "artificial intelligence,” "artificial bodies” (robotics) and even an "artificial ecology?” How do different cultural perspectives inform an understanding of comparative and convergent artificialization?

Computation today poses technical challenges and contradictions; it also demands deep political and philosophical reconsideration. Ultimately, computation remakes intelligence itself, revealing comprehension as a function of modeling. What is planetary computation? How do we quantify and qualify it? What is it for?